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Quotes from Marius the Epicurean — Walter Pater

1839–1894 England

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To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.

Marius the Epicurean (1885)

We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.

Marius the Epicurean (1885)

A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.

Marius the Epicurean (1885)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Walter Pater (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.